Does Contrary-Forming Predicate Negation Solve the Frege-Geach Problem?

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 13 (1) (2018)
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Solving expressivism’s Frege-Geach problem requires specifying the attitudes expressed by arbitrarily complex moral sentences. Nicholas Unwin emphasizes the problems that arise in doing so for even the relatively simple case of negated atomic sentences. Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons believe that contrary-forming predicate negation offers a solution to this negation problem. I argue that their solution is incomplete.

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Quasi-realism, negation and the Frege-Geach problem.Nicholas Unwin - 1999 - Philosophical Quarterly 49 (196):337-352.
Expressivist embeddings and minimalist truth.James Dreier - 1996 - Philosophical Studies 83 (1):29-51.
Expressivism and contrary-forming negation.Terry Horgan & Mark Timmons - 2009 - Philosophical Issues 19 (1):92-112.

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